Quotes About Observation

Art is observing society around you, representing it through your eyes.

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.

The advantage of not starting is you're sitting back, looking at the game and saying, 'OK, we need rebounding,' or 'We need hustle points.' Coming off the bench, that's what you try to do. The disadvantage of it is you gotta catch that flow. You're coming off the bench, you gotta come ready, warmed up already, catch the flow of the game.

The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant.

And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives.

Not as a demonstrated natural law, but as a working hypothesis.

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellowes as I put them down.

The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.

I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

Sadly, bird illustration has always been an under-appreciated art.

I'm interested in aesthetics, in the way things look, in finding something in an image that maybe people haven't seen.

It's hard for me to assess what I brought because each time you pick up a camera and point it at a person, you're trying to define that person so to talk generally is difficult because I have to think of a given image in order to conjure up what we're talking about.

Children always tend to imitate everything that we are doing in front of them.

Sometimes art imitates life.

When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.

Generally, when it comes to covers, I try and add elements that may not take your immediate attention but really become important the more you look at them.

Any author gets inspired by the experiences and events that happen to him or his immediate circle. While that's where the seed or the idea germinates, by the end of the story, it accounts for hardly anything in the book.

When I used to see Rick Moranis do something, to me that was immediately funny. Or George Carlin or Martin Lawrence.

Seriously, I dreamed that I was in my husband's dream, watching what he was dreaming about. Like, I was in his dream as an onlooker. It was so weird that I immediately wrote it down in the middle of the night. In the morning, it still sounded cool.